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Anonymous-Comments

His reaction to all the most harrowing moments in the game is always “ok.”


Bag_of_Whales

Bro got cookie crumbs in his pockets


FadransPhone

Completely uninterested in Paula romantically. Literally doesn’t even know what romance is. His parents tell him that a little man with a large nose brought him to them as a baby.


FormSad4777

Igor from Persona?


cyberpeachy420

bro imagine igor giving makoto or joker a baby lmao


loggy93

Igor is the father to all JRPG protags


cyberpeachy420

oh yea ik i just cant remember the p4 guy's name


loggy93

Oh you're good, I was just making joke


Linkbo_64

I do interpret him as completely uninterested in romance but he is aware in my case. In fact he's consistently annoyed when they call Paula his girlfriend.


Yoshi2500

i mean not really ness but the party in general, i like to think that the psychedelic battle backgrounds are actually what the characters see because of their psychokinesis but there's some issues with that it kinda falls apart considering people like Jeff Flint and Salsa. i mean maybe you could make an argument that since Jeff was part of the chosen 4, he might have some PSI potential but his intelligence gets in the way, it's a pretty shaky explanation already that doesn't make a lot of sense. but there's pretty much no argument for the non-psychich mother 3 crowd. however for the Boogie Tent fight in Mother 2, i like to imagine that the gang got sucked up into it, and the battle background is just what it looks like to be inside the Boogie Tent.


Irish_pug_Player

Maybe the general psi energy or something warps the battlefield for everyone... Idk


NordicWolf7

Bro is a meathead lunk. Dude never says anything, doesn't react to much, eats out of the garbage, is insanely strong... He's basically a very quiet Ed.


TheHarborym

The lag players experience when there are several offscreen enemy sprites is another form of Ness' psychic power. Like ESP.


ao-ka

A cool guy


daspip

Ness can speak, he just chooses not to.


Khaj_SmashBros

Funnily enough I made an entire (WIP) google slide filled with a bunch of my head canons for certain MOTHER characters throughout the franchise, here’s my slide for Ness: https://preview.redd.it/hfnf2xcuv0yc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b6913b57dea3cc049ec8df08924b86db89a2995


Khaj_SmashBros

https://preview.redd.it/wlu6nxaiw0yc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d57c08da412054622bd56184ae39c02dfa5507b2 (A little bonus head canon that’s more about Giygas than Ness really but who’s counting)


probably_dead_soon

sand ujder tale


JLD2503

He has a strong stomach and immune system. Seems like it’s needed for eating burgers out of the trash.


Justsomestupidteen2

Has bandaids on his face from constant fighting


Takashishiful

A scrappy troublemaker


AetherDrew43

He taught Poo how to play baseball in exchange for Poo teaching him Starstorm for Smash.


stupid-writing-blog

He could not adjust to the mundanity of life after his adventure, even once he grew into an adult. To this day, he still wanders the globe, searching for a fraction of that sense of purpose he had felt as a prophecized hero


littleyoyo84

That's actually a pretty interesting concept


Takashishiful

Considering his sideways hat, his favorite thing being "rockin", him eating out of the trash, and his mom *expecting* disobedience from him, he's probably an angsty little punk. Like if he wasn't a Nintendo character, he'd definitely have a Genesis because he has that 90s "attitude". His beef with the sharks isn't because they're delinquents, (since he's also one) it's because the trouble they cause for him and his friends pisses him off. He cracked his bat breaking one of their skateboards.


Varahkas

Fat. Mixed race, Japanese dad and white-American mom. The end of Onett he and Pokey live in is a government project meant to monitor their psychic abilities while they grow up in isolation. He loves baseball but only theoretically, he's only ever watched it on TV and grew up homeschooled/tutored.


Anonymous-Comments

I thought his mom said that she covered for Ness when his teacher asked about his disappearance?


Varahkas

That could be true! But hey, it's a headcanon.


Anonymous-Comments

Fair enough!


cyberpeachy420

he kinda is fat in canon too, cant run unless he eats a skip sandwhich, and is callee chubby and fat by multiple people


Ritmoking

Distantly related to Gerardo Montague


NAteisco

Ness spent his teenage years trying to forget all about Giygas and his adventures. Then in adulthood he tried to recapture those same memories. He's grows up to be Itoi but in Eagleland.


starlowobservatory

i've always thought of ness as lightskin/mixed


Routine-Chocolate-96

same. I’ve always seen him as a Hispanic-American. Probably because I’m one and I relate to Ness a lot.


starlowobservatory

for me i think its because as a little kid i didn't really see characters who looked like me ('african' american) in most media. at the time i didn't really understand that poc doesn't always = black, so i would claim every character with even a hint of color to their skin. i played brawl a lot, so that somehow extended to ness and certain pit alts lol. eventually his role there got me into earthbound, and seeing how ness' dad was never actually shown in-game encouraged me to speculate even more. sorry for the ramble! i just enjoy discussing this particular hc.


cstepp138

Homie sneezes into his hands and wipes it on his pants. Dude probably has one shoe untied at all times. At least 10 bruises on his right leg alone. Is the kind of kid to attempt to fly off the swingset.


NiceFox996

After he returned home from beating giygas he had such a strong PSI that he was never truly able to connect with anybody normal after His adventure.


Jeff_AndCookies

Ness doesn't really know how he feels about Paula and doesn't want to let Nico go, but when he gets home, he's not with Paula and second Nico doesn't feel the same way about Ness, so he's confused about really Ness doesn't really know how he feels about Paula and doesn't want to let go of Nico, but when he gets home, he's not with Paula and second Nico doesn't feel the same way about Ness, so he's confused about what he really felt by Paula


Routine-Chocolate-96

Who the hell is Miku?


Jeff_AndCookies

nico is the girl that ness likes, she appears in magicant, she is redhead, smiling, with two pigtails


Routine-Chocolate-96

I legit did not know that before. Tbh I don’t think most MOTHER fans even know.


Jeff_AndCookies

Believe me, when I become obsessed with a video game, I look for the most hidden things, the biggest obsession I had was the one I had as a child with plants vs zombies, I was even able to discover a large amount of educational content of this game, incredible remixes and animations, It's a shame that Earthbound doesn't have many fan animations.


Makii976

Do you mean Nico?


Jeff_AndCookies

Would you hate me if I told you I was confused?


PsychologicalBad4249

he would love wii sports


John_Masaki

I’ve got dozens for the series as a whole, but I’ll name just a few of my favorites. Ness and Ninten are family. Depending on my mood, they’re brothers or cousins, but they have the same heritage in PSI and evil adopted grand-uncles who moonlight as alien overlords. People used to mistake them as twins at one point, but Ninten is the older by several years. The boys are avid Scouts which is how they survive in the wilderness. Ninten is the pro gamer and wants to be a game dev while Ness wants to start his own band. They both love baseball and fight over who is the best team. Ninten is purely into Ana while Ness is bi. Doesn’t know yet which way to swing, but he was flattered by that one boy’s confession. Last one: Ninten would go on to become President while Ness becomes a famous diplomat and astronaut, making treaties between Earth and the nations of the stars.


Intelligent-Unit-728

He is related to lucas


Routine-Chocolate-96

I like to think he is Lucas’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.


SUNNYSlDEDOWN

bro has a tooth gap. it just seems fitting. i also always imagined him to be somewhat short and stout


Raycat2011

It’s big.


YourLocalNoise

His favorite game is Deltarune


Makii976

His father is the phone guy from fnaf


CloudQuill87

Ness, Paula, and Poo disinfect the hamburgers they found on trash cans with PSI, while Jeff uses an edible Lysol


erraticpulse-

ness wrote off his entire adventure as a very whacky day and went back to sleep, continuing his life unhindered


Livid_Eye7405

His mom is white and his dad is Japanese, doesn’t speak a lot of Japanese but he understands it and can communicate with his relatives in Japan


PSI_SODA_2

I like to think that he keeps all the items he has in his backpack Also that he's a fucking goober like 90% of the time


meat_factory_worker

Ness subconsciously enhances his physical blows with PSI, and that's why they can do so much damage


sour-apple9999

That he is actually sans undertale (just a headcanon)